Lees House

Lees House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with a facade and additions from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber framed and has a channelled render to the front elevation. The ground floor of the left gable end is painted brick, while the first floor is rendered. The right gable end displays exposed framing to the ground floor and is tile hung on the first floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The house is two storeys and has a garret, set on a rendered plinth. A continuous jetty runs along the front, underbuilt to about half its depth and returned to the right. There is an eaves cornice of paired Ionic modillions. The roof is half-hipped. Red and grey brick rear stacks are located to the left and right, with the right stack projecting on a stone base with red brick dressings; the base of the right stack extends to the right, potentially for a later bread oven. The front has a regular three-window arrangement of twelve-pane sashes. Two outer sashes are located in rendered, two-storey canted bays with side-lights, and the central sash is in an open box. Similar sashes are present on the ground floor of the canted bays. A central half-glazed and panelled door with flanking side-lights sits under a broad Doric porch. The ground floor of the right gable end shows exposed framing, including tension braces, two studs morticed for a bay or oriel window, and three or four-light mullioned frieze windows with diamond subsidiary mullions, all behind a mid-20th century lean-to with a plain tile roof. A two-storey rear return wing to the left has a tile-hung first floor and two twelve-pane sashes in open boxes to the left side. The rear gable features a stack. A shorter, two-storey, red brick rear wing or turret is located to the centre, adjoining the left wing, with similar eaves and a plain tile roof. A single-storey, L-plan former stables runs back from the main range, adjoining the right side of the central wing and returning to the left, ending level with the rear left wing. The stables are constructed of chequered red and grey brick on a stone plinth, with dentilled eaves, a plain tile roof, a boarded door, and two small windows towards the front end of the right side, along with two small paned lights and three stable doors to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.